Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion . . So Far Author: Terry Pratchett | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DB3D7QW | Format: EPUB
Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion . . So Far Description
For every Pratchett fan, the must-have fully updated guidebook to Discworld!
The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant star turtle, the Great A'Tuin, as it slowly swims through space.
It is also a global publishing phenomenon with sales of nearly 85 million books worldwide (and counting). With 39 books in the canon, not including the various guides, maps, diaries, and other tie-in volumes, there's a lot of Discworld to keep track of—more than most fans can manage without magic.
Turtle Recall is the ultimate authority on probably the most heavily populated—certainly the most hilarious—setting in fantasy literature and includes a guide to Discworld locales from Ankh-Morpork to Zemphis, as well as information to help you distinguish Achmed the Mad from Jack Zweiblumen and the Agatean Empire from the Zoons. Plus much, much more.
Covering everything from The Colour of Magic, the first Discworld novel, through Snuff!, Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion . . . So Far is the most up-to-the-minute encyclopedia of Terry Pratchett's extraordinary universe available.
- Print Length: 464 pages
- Publisher: Harper (April 8, 2014)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DB3D7QW
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
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In 1983, the Science Fiction Book Club had as a featured novel The Color of Magic. I ordered it, read it and have never looked back. Through some 40 Discworld books, a dozen or more diaries like the Discworld Thieves' Guild Yearbook & Diary 2002, various maps like A Tourist Guide to Lancre: A Discworld Mapp (Discworld Series), very bad cookbooks like Nanny Ogg's Cookbook: A Useful and Improving Almanack of Information Including Astonishing Recipes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Discworld Series) and more, I've bought them all. Including two earlier editions of the Discworld Companion. I have sagging shelves of Pratchettania.
So why buy Turtle Recall? Well, apart from the wonderfully dreadful pun in the title, this collection brings your Discworld trivia up to Snuff, the latest Discworld novel. And its restores a number of characters and places that had been dropped from the earlier editions for lack of space. And there is a spiffy detailed map to downtown Ankh-Morpork, the largest city on the Discworld.
Caveat: I'm not an expert on the Disc. I read the books, own many of them, but I do not compile endless lists of trivia from them. Briggs does, so I'll use his.
This edition of the Companion purports to reinstate material on various walk-on, "bit-part" characters that was excised from the second edition. Other than that snippet from the Author's introduction I have little knowledge and zero feelings about the inclusion or exclusion of such material.
The entries I've cherry-picked seem accurate and well written in an informative and concise manner. Were I to have any complaint it is that since I have no Latin to speak of I wish the Latin Mottoes included in the entries for various guilds and organizations had been translated into English. A trivial matter.
Certain material may be controversial since the canonical sources may be contradictory due to the evolving nature of the author's vision of the world and the people who run about on it doing all sorts of things that invalidate its warranty. There's a map in the first couple of pages that will infuriate the "Can't Be Mapped" crowd. Also: written by Briggs & Pratchett the same team who brought you Ye Mapps. Don't buy this book if any of those facts will make you wish you hadn't bought this book after you have, in fact, bought this book.
The book is a hardbound book with a stitched binding, dimensioned to match the hardbound Discworld books you may (or may not) have on your shelves (not the oversized ones like "The Last Hero", the regular books like "Small Gods"). There's a dust-jacket featuring the art depicted in the photograph. Since I can't read Amazon's listings properly and was expecting a paperback as a result, this was all a small surprise.
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